Take Me to the River: A poem in honor of EMB

The Mighty Kmuzu has commissioned a poem be created in honor and homage of Elvis in My Basement. The poem was written by the esteemed rhapsodist, Michael Nicholas Hunt. Enjoy my friends .. enjoy

Take me to the River

by Michael Nicholas Hunt

The Strip; Amazon of the desert

draining a rain forest of torrential light

In its psychedelic foliage, I glimpse

glowing, falling then floating down river

a glistening Sun God cape

and flaring rhinestone slacks

billowing in the funky heat

It pumps my adrenalin

like a camera flash

Juiced; I haunt the river bank

rolling dem bones in the jungle

chips rasping like crickets

gilded mosquito swarms humming

exotic birds chiming in

Compulsively I probe, push, and search

in a ritual of rolling sound and vision

It electrifies me with jolts

then shorts out

when bleary eyes

and a bitter taste on tongue

break my trance

And as I float away from the main river

with my headlights pointed for home

towards the dark desert

My radio streams to me 

Memphis Mississippi

Kissing cousin of the Nile

source spring of Cash and Kings

reaching out to me in the darkness

In my dark room

I feel as if I’m underground

groping for a light switch

searching vacantly

nursing a void

like I need to stumble blindly over

Elvis in my basement

and touch his regal mantle

as he rests eternally,

a Southern Pharaoh

in contemplation of afterlife

I would brush my hand over his chops

His lips would curl against the palm of my hand

He would clear his throat

and with an unmistakable Southern Huh!

The King lives

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Copyright 2010 Michael Nicholas Hunt

This poem may not be copied, published or modified without the written consent from  Michael Nicholas Hunt. 

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If you're interested in commissioning a poem from Mr. Hunt you can contact him through Fiverr at Balkanverse.